Europa Boutique Information

The Europa Boutique Hotel in Santo Domingo’s Ciudad Colonial, originally operated from 1930-1965 as a traditional hotel, standing out for its exquisite attention to detail and design of its balconies with a characteristic ironwork of the period.

If you are a single parent like me you will appreciate when people go out of the way to make feel at ease & stress free.

My daughter's & I felt like we were staying with relatives ( very good relatives) the rooms was always clean & never felt unsafe staying at the hotel with my daughter 's . The amazing staff even did my youngest hair every morning and everyone was very hopeful. The only thing is missing a pool but so many beaches close by you will not need it.

I live in Punta Cana area and go often to Santo Domingo, since July found this small but complete hotel in Zona Colonial, Rates depend the time of the year.. become a regular and they give you good deal... bar never close, sundry shop also always open, location is excellent one block from plaza espana where yoy can have delicious food. Room service at the hotel is affordable and good.

While driving through the hectic Santo Domingo city traffic in order to reach the Colonial zone, I remember the proximity of the old city center to the Malecon (seawall) of Santo Domingo. This really comes in handy while trying to keep my bearings. Before I know it, I arrive at hotel Europa where I am told that it is safe to park my car at the side of the building.

Hotel Europa has recently been turned into a so-called boutique or design hotel. The use of draped curtains -often with a knot- blue and green lighting, steel and glass, modern abstract art, open spaces and a calculated, over stylized decoration are some of the characteristics that intend to heighten the sense of luxury.

It is Saturday and I am relieved to find out that the hotel with 50 rooms has at least one room available. I pay for a room on the second floor. The important floor / evacuation plan indicates that I have been given an interior room with a “window” that opens to a narrow glass covered shaft. Not my idea of luxury, so I hurry back to the reception to see if I can upgrade to a brighter, less claustrophobic room. The friendly hotel manager understands my concern. The porter accompanies me this time and tries to get the television to work. After observing a ten minutes struggle, I suggest that it might be a better idea when he fixes the TV while I am out sitting on a terrace somewhere. I am near desperate to take a shower and get out of here. The bathroom looks less modern. There are all kinds of toiletries for me to choose from but the showerhead is plugged up and the hot water situation is sub-optimal. The little shoe polish device surely comes in handy!

I take some pictures of the room and realize that all windows are placed really high up, almost out of ones reach. I can live with the fact that the room does not have a balcony. There are two queen size beds in the room with really comfortable mattresses. This is honestly the first sign of relevant luxury I come across. I also like the fact that there is a phone in the room and that the reception proves to be dependable in both the personal wake up call (no machine!) and transferring an important incoming call to my room. In the elevator I learn that the hotel offers spa like treatments in the “Metamorphosis Relax Space”.

The hotel has Wi-Fi and I am told the access code. On various occasions I see people using the connection in the lobby but at the time I want to check my mail, I am told the server is down.

The hotel bar is always empty but who needs one when just a few blocks away you find plenty of restaurants and nightly entertainment. This brings me to the thought that perhaps the grand feature of the hotel is the Zona Colonial itself.